The problem is, that the 'news' is out and discussions as well as speculations are going on both international, but also in domestic newspapers.
We should certainly *not* take part of the speculations about A, B or C possible results. The best thing would be, if we could ask Oracle to make a more clear and undiscussable statement regarding OpenOffice.org. I know that they already did, but to many journalists, this was only to 'buy time'. best, Leif Lodahl DA.OpenOffice.org 2010/1/21 Bernhard Dippold <[email protected]> > Hi Viktor, all, > > [email protected] schrieb: > > Florian >> >> Hello >> >> What do you think about following news? Concretely: What about >> perspectives if OOo in the nearest future under ORACLE supervision? >> > > My personal opinion is that Oracle is quite a large software company being > too professional to neglect OOo. So I'm sure they do have plans if and how > they support OOo development. > > As these plans will not be published before the decision of the European > antitrust regulators, we'll have to wait for their press release after this > decision. > > For me there are three possible results: > > A) Oracle wants to reduce Suns open source activities. > > B) Oracle keeps the activities on the same level. > > C) Oracle intensifies the open source dedication. > > I don't think that we should start marketing campaigns for all the three of > these possibilities, but perhaps we could create a press release in three > different versions, so we can invite / congratulate / thank Oracle for their > dedication - depending on their goals. > > These PR should be worked on in the team dedicated for such work - > non-public (on p...@marketing) as all our press releases. > > Campaigns could start after we know about the direction they want to go > with us. > > It's one more week of uncertainty, I think we can bare with it. > > Just my two cent... > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
